Tag Archives: New Hampshire

Great Island Common – New Castle, NH

Great Island Common in New Castle, NH is a scenic, dog friendly place to visit during the off-season.  Consisting of 32 acres it includes a small sandy beach, rocky shoreline, picnic area, and stone jetty popular for fishing.  This is a scenic location to walk your dog with sweeping views of two lighthouses, Whaleback and […]

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Golden Tail Wags Awards 2017

During December we are going to take a brief break from posting trail reviews and will resume in January.  However, to wrap up this year’s adventures, we’d like to present our 2nd Annual Golden Tail Wags Awards.  Oh sure you’d expect this to be about the best of the best.  It’s not.  Our awards are […]

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Halloween Hikes for Dogs

In the spirit of Halloween, today we are sharing a few of our favorite Dog Friendly spooky hikes.  Are you a scaredy dog, or brave enough to visit our favorite tail wagging haunts?  Ok, so really the only thing spooky about these trails are the names and the legends behind them, but they are all […]

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New England Dog Hikes

With Fall officially arriving later on this week, we would like to share with you a few of our favorite Dog Friendly Hikes in New England.  Click on the highlighted name for more information, including directions, weather forecast and photos.  For additional tail wagging destinations, please visit our Dog Friendly Places recommendations.  And as always, […]

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Improved Dog Friendly Trails Reviews

Exciting news! We’ve reached maximum capacity for our Dog Friendly Trails recommendations page!  But have no fear, we still have a lot more reviews to post and places to explore.  So to accommodate our growing list we’ve updated Living with a Golden.  You’ll notice when you visit our Dog Trails page, you’ll see we’ve added […]

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Chesterfield Gorge, Chesterfield, NH

Chesterfield Gorge State Wayside, in Chesterfield, NH, is an easy dog friendly scenic walk.  The 0.7 mile Wilderness Loop Trail follows Wilde Brook and winds its way around both sides of the gorge, with scenic views of the series of waterfalls.  There is a fence around the steep drop-off to protect curious pups, but there […]

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Chesterfield Gorge – Chesterfield, NH

Chesterfield Gorge State Wayside, in Chesterfield, NH, is an easy dog friendly scenic walk.  The 0.7 mile Wilderness Loop Trail follows Wilde Brook and winds its way around both sides of the gorge, with scenic views of the series of waterfalls.  There is a fence around the steep drop-off to protect curious pups, but there […]

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Madame Sherri Forest, Chesterfield, NH

Nestled in Madame Sherri Forest in Chesterfield, New Hampshire is a beautiful stone stairway to nowhere, making for a unique dog friendly hike.  Named for the eccentric Madame Antoinette Sherri, who once designed costumes for the Zigfield Follies in the 1920s, the stairway and a few ruins are all that remain of her “castle” that once […]

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Madame Sherri Forest – Chesterfield, NH

Nestled in Madame Sherri Forest in Chesterfield, New Hampshire is a beautiful stone stairway to nowhere, making for a unique dog friendly hike.  Named for the eccentric Madame Antoinette Sherri, who once designed costumes for the Zigfield Follies in the 1920s, the stairway and a few ruins are all that remain of her “castle” that once […]

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